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Slide 2 By: A Peyton Isaac Production Slide 3 What are Plate Tectonics? Plate tectonics is the theory that the rigid outer portion of the earth is broken into large separate sections, called tectonic plates, each moving at a specific speed in a specific direction. Slide 4 What is Pangaea? Pangaea is a single landmass, or supercontinent, that existed from about 350 million to 200 million years ago and was separated by plate tectonics, forming the current continents. Slide 5 One of the seven great landmasses of the earth, including Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, N. America, and S. America Slide 6 What is Continental Drift? Continental Drift is a theory that the continents were attached together in the past, and have been drifting apart ever since. Slide 7 The 3 plate boundaries are : Convergent, Divergent, and Transform. Convergent boundaries are going toward each other, Divergent boundaries push away from each other, and Transform boundaries are sliding pass each other. Slide 8 Slide 9